Creativity Quotes · Page 220

For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act…

— Oscar Niemeyer

Vision is seeing a future state with the mind's eye. Vision is applied imagination.

— Stephen Covey

“you create your reality. And you’ve spent a lifetime creating the one”

— Jen Sincero

I feel like everything is inspired by something else. There is no 100 percent original thought.

— Ne-Yo

As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that…

— Todd Hido

That one tickled. If electrocution is your way of flirting, I commend you on your originality.

— Jeaniene Frost

“Your fate is never determined when your massive imagination is.”

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Creating music and just having someone's art directs the way you think about life subconsciously.

— Vince Staples

I think it's absolutely essential to encourage creativity. I think we come in as these wide-eyed sponges, ready to create and absorb…

— Audra McDonald

Feeling creative produces great work in approximately the same way that "feeling like a doctor" makes you a gifted thoracic surgeon.

— Merlin Mann

The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is…

— Isaac Asimov

“The real act of will was not in the creating of a garden but in the sustaining, the continuous stand against wildness.”

— Amy Waldman

There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been…

— Antony Gormley

“Creating our own realities is nothing new, but now it’s easier than ever to become trapped in echo chambers of our own…

— Jamie Bartlett

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

— Bryan Talbot

Oratory is good only if it has the qualities of fitness for the occasion, propriety of style, and originality of treatment, while…

— Isocrates

“Oh God how subtle he would have to be, how cunning... No paragraph, no phrase even of the thousands the book must…

— John Crowley

I can't tell you how much I appreciate these young [Israeli] designers. There's too much strife in the world. If we become…

— Donna Karan

Look at the paintings of Picasso. He is a great painter, but just a subjective artist. Looking at his paintings, you will…

— Rajneesh

The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand…

— Alfred Noyes

“It is not many things that modern psychology agress upon, but all the different approaches of psychology agrees on one thing: that…

— Swami Dhyan Giten

“The next time you experience a creative block, resist the temptation to doubt yourself, or to put in more blind effort. Stop…

— Jocelyn K. Glei

One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within…

— Edmond de Goncourt

A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you…

— Nicki Minaj

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

— Giuseppe Verdi

We express our being by creating. Creativity is a necessary sequel to being.

— Rollo May

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

— John Cleese

“Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.”

— Jaeda DeWalt

All creative work begins by doing something with the hands. Creation is simply a problem and design is the way out.

— Charles James

“Garbage, in its "worthless" state, is the primary fuel for creativity.”

— Yusuf A. Leinge

“We all are creative by nature, but our creativity gets buried deep under the pressure of our day to day mad rush.”

— Sukant Ratnakar

The main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer.

— Stella McCartney

Rather than finding fault with the way things are, it is better to dream up things that do not exist yet.

— Anonymous

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

— George Henry Lewes

There needs to be a bigger focus on creative innovation versus business models and cash flow.

— Nancy Dubuc

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

— James Altucher

Creative exploration [is] impossible, without (humble) acknowledgement of the unknown.

— Jordan Peterson

I never felt like I had to sound like my dad. I wanted my music to be creative expression with no expectations.

— John Carter Cash

I like to create events where people are going to make memories, and that always starts and ends with food in my…

— Damaris Phillips

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

— Robert Greene